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So, there’s been a bit of storm blowing through the part of the InterWeb that I inhabit recently – see http://blog.benday.com/archive/2009/07/27/23233.aspx for the low-down. I’ve seen these types of discussions countless times, both online and in the real world – the thing that wears me down the most is the seemingly constant assertion that ...

Now that Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 are available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads, we’d like to announce our broad plans for Scrum for Team System. The next release of Scrum for Team System will be v3.0 and like the prior releases our aim is to ship as soon as possible after release of Team ...

A few support queries and tweets have come up recently about our support for 64-bit Sharepoint (WSS or MOSS) with Scrum for Team System v2.2 and TFS.  The crux of the issue seems to be the ability of the installer to detect the location of WSS as it is not looking in the correct place in the registry to support both 32 and 64-bit installers, ...

As part of work recently to improve how we test the Scrum for Team System template and tools across different platforms, we have discovered there are a few additional manual steps to take when you are installing the template in a distributed environment (i.e. you are using a remote WSS 3 or MOSS 2007 server to host your Team Project Portals). ...

As part of the release of version 2.2 we have extended support for SQL Server 2008 mainly around the Reporting Services. The “SQLServer2008Patcher” utility (included in the suite of tools installed with the SfTS template) will update the 2 reports, “Sprint Task Board” and “Sprint Task Board”, to make use of the ...

Version 2.2 of the Scrum for Team System process template contains a new reporting feature; the Report Slide Show tool. The slide show is installed by default along with the other components of the process template and allows you to display a selection of reports (using the report default parameter values) for a selection of team projects. To ...

One of our new reports within the Scrum for Team System template is the Task Board report.  This report will show the current status of the work items link to the sprint. Most of the data for this report comes from the data warehouse, however to make this report and its drilldown report useful some of data needed to come from the transaction ...

Getting started with Scrum for Team System I’ve written the below blog post to help people new to scrum get started with the Scrum for Team System process template. It will take you through setting up a simple project, creating user stories, creating tasks and working through a sprint. Pre-requisites: In order to continue with this guide you ...

Scrum for Team System – Work Item Migration Utility During the creation of the Scrum for Team System (SfTS) version 2 template, the development team created several utility programs to help test and work with the new template. One of these utilities is the “Work Item Migration Utility”. Work Item Migration By default, the team foundation ...

  As some of our users have been aware there are some issues when doing an in-place upgrade to Team Foundation Server 2008 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. We are sorry that this issue has arisen and have been working on a fix, I am now pleased to say that we have a process in place that should fix existing upgrades and also allows us ...